This episode before showing your class in case your students are differentįrom mine. Of The Almighty funny and not at all offensive, but you should review In discussions with the class, even religious students find the depiction Set-up an alternative activity, although nobody has taken this option. I offer students who think they may be offended by the That the episode, while a family situation comedy which originallyĪired during prime time, does make scatological and sexual referencesĪnd features the actor Lee Majors playing The Almighty (stereotypedĪs a Texan). This is a good way to set up a discussion of gender similarities andĭifferences in personality using Hyde's work on meta-analysis. With a lot of overlap, a little overlap or something in between). On what they think the distributions look like (e.g. I put them on theīlackboard and classify them into physical, sexual, personality, social,Īnd emotional and discuss if they are accurate, inaccurate, or anĮxaggeration of a true difference. Men and for women that are mentioned in the show. My students to keep track and write down all of the stereotypes for In the course of the show, many gender stereotypes areĭepicted and reinforced (and some are even abandoned). In this episode Jim thinks that he can design women better than theĬreator did. To help theĭiscussion along, I like to show the episode "Jim Almighty" from theĪBC television show According to Jim, starring Jim Belushi. My classes are often very much skewed in one direction. Little reticent to talk about gender stereotypes, especially since Her personality course: "These days, I find that my students are a Marianne Miserandino shared this interesting assignment she uses in
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I distribute equally 1 of the 4 different Students see the role that evolution likely played in shaping Interesting activity: "This activity is designed to help Searching Google for parental gender bias - A cool yet simple demo for the classroom or beyond, from David Myers Įvolution shapes social behavior - Joy Drinnon offers this Women tend to write associative words that fit a "feminine schematic" (e.g., bow-hair nail-polish) while men tend to list words that fit a more "masculine schematic" (e.g., bow-arrow nail-hammer). Students write down each word as well as the first word they freely associate with each word. The instructor reads six homonyms (nail, bow, club, band, lash, ring) aloud one at a time. Gender influences our interpretations of the world - This nice, simple demonstration was just presented in the most recent edition of Teaching of Psychology. Personal space and proxemics - an online, interactive exercise for your students Is she a woman? - a good class question and accompanying articleĮxploring dimensions of gender, sex, and attraction - Using the Gender Unicorn! objects" -īeth Morling suggests some ways to introduce and demonstrate objectification to your students.